Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1990, Mass Communication with dissertation on journalism ethics MS. Syracuse University, 1973, Television-Radio B.A. DePauw Univesity, 1969, Economics
Ten years experience as reporter, executive producer, news director for local television stations in Bangor, Maine, Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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I'm wearing several hats these days. I continue as the Nelson Poynter Scholar for Journalism Values at The Poynter Institute. I'll play a key role in the Poynter Ethics Fellows program that I initiated in 2001, and I'll be involved in other Poynter programs in values and ethics. I'll write for Poynter Online. And I'm ready and able to take calls and e-mails with your ethics questions and queries. (727-580-4544 is my cell phone, and steele@poynter.org reaches me).
As of July 1, 2008, my wife, Carol, and I are living in Greencastle, Indiana. I have a dual role at DePauw University, my undergraduate alma mater. I'm the Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism, teaching courses in journalism ethics and advising in DePauw's Media Fellows program, one of the university's programs of distinction. I'm also a scholar-in-residence at DePauw's Janet Prindle Ethics Institute where I will develop and guide programs and forums on professional ethics and decision-making process.
Carol is an associate dean of academic affairs at DePauw working with various programs including the women in science and the management fellows. For both of us, this is a return to our Midwestern roots -- I'm from small-town Indiana and Carol is from Chicago. We, along with our trusty pups -- a Golden Retriever named Connemara and a Border Collie named Cooper -- are enjoying the Indiana countryside with rolling hills, prairie grass, flowers and woods around our home. We look forward to visitors arriving on our doorstep....
